Bamboo Fabric Mill Directory

The Caution That Comes First

Apparel Search can NOT guarantee that the companies on this page produce a true bamboo fiber or fabric. You would have to do your own testing to be certain. That warning stood at the top of the original directory and it stays at the top here, because bamboo is the fabric category where the name on the order and the fiber in the cloth most often part company. Two very different materials travel under the bamboo name, and a buyer who does not ask which one a mill is selling cannot know what they are getting.

The first material is mechanically processed bamboo: the woody bamboo stem is crushed and the natural fibers are extracted and combed out largely by mechanical means, producing a coarse, linen-like natural fiber. The term page on mechanically processed bamboo defines that route formally. The second, far more common material is bamboo viscose - bamboo pulp dissolved chemically and regenerated as viscose (rayon) fiber. It is soft and fluid and legitimately made from bamboo feedstock, but the finished fiber is regenerated cellulose, and regulators in several markets require it to be labelled as viscose or rayon from bamboo rather than simply bamboo.

What Bamboo Fabrics Are Bought For

Where the fiber is genuine, bamboo fabrics are bought for softness and moisture handling. Bamboo viscose is notably smooth and cool against the skin, which is why it fills orders for bed sheets, towels, underwear, socks and baby clothing, and mechanically processed bamboo offers a drier, more linen-like hand for woven goods. Bamboo also grows quickly with little irrigation compared with conventional cotton, which is the honest core of its environmental appeal - but that appeal belongs to the plant, and how much of it survives depends entirely on the processing route, which is again why the processing question comes before the price question.

This directory sits inside a wider bamboo trade on Apparel Search: the Bamboo Fiber Directory covers the fiber upstream, the Bamboo Yarn Directory covers yarn producers between fiber and fabric, and the Fabric Directory hub and the Fabric Manufacturers Directory place the mills below among all fabric producers. Terminology for the whole category is in the Fabric Definitions list, and the mills' machinery context is the Textile Machinery directory inside the Textile Industry Directory.

Using This Directory

The listings below are the complete set for this category as Apparel Search carries it: three mills, all in China, each linked to its own profile in the Fabric Mills by Name section. No listing has been added or removed. When you contact a mill, ask first which bamboo route it runs - mechanical or regenerated viscose - what fiber content and blend it will certify on the invoice, and what test report supports the claim; then verify on your own production fabric before repeating any bamboo claim to your customers. Downstream, the trade runs through Clothing Industry Factories, Yarn Factories, Fabric Retail and Fabric Wholesalers, with the Fibers Directory, Fashion Industry News, Clothing Industry Employment and Conversion Charts alongside. Thank you for using the Apparel Search Fabric Mill Directory.

Bamboo Fabric Mills Listed in This Directory